Shire urges continued methadone service

The Colac-Otway Shire will lobby the Victorian Government to restore funding to a methadone treatment services in Colac.

The Health Department plans to cut funding to a Colac Area Health program that provides methadone to recovering heroin addicts.

The shire's chief executive, Rob Small, says the cuts will force people to travel to Geelong to access treatment.

He says it will make it harder for people in the Colac area to recover from drug addiction.

"The best thing you can do is to lower the barriers while you move them through a process of recuperation and it seem to me the more barriers you put in the way of that the worse the problem becomes, so you virtually consign people to their misery when you don't provide that assistance in a very simple way for them," he said.

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